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单词 abridger
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abridgern.

Brit. /əˈbrɪdʒə/, U.S. /əˈbrɪdʒər/
Forms: see abridge v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abridge v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < abridge v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier abbreviator n.
A person who makes an abridgement; a summarizer, a compiler. Also: a person who or thing which curtails or reduces something.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > one who
abridger1555
diminisher1601
retrencher1699
amputator1810
docker1810
curtailer1813
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who
abbreviator1529
abridger1555
summarist1577
summister1577
summulary1580
summer-up1599
summist1602
breviate-maker1611
epitomist1611
epitomizer1615
barber1616
breviarist1621
epitomator1621
summulist1635
abbreviarist1679
breviator1679
compendiarist1679
compendiator1679
curtailer1724
literator1785
summarizer1861
condenser1868
trimmer1876
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. 137 I rather fansie..to folowe the founteines of the first Authours, then the brokes of abredgers.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. sig. P2 Wanton loue..is the abridger of mans libertie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extrayeur de proces, a reporter, or Abridger, of Cases; a breuiate-maker.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 137 The Great Abridger of Age was the Floud.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxii. 222 He was an Abridger of a larger Work.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 351 (note) The famous Henri Sponde, bishop of Pamiers, and abridger of the annals of Baronius.
1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. vi. iv. 143 He had, at his command, the names of the abridgers, and reporters, and commentators of the law.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. v. 62 The abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England..are eulogized by a thousand pens. View more context for this quotation
1858 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (new ed.) 451 A concocter of paragraphs, or an abridger of Parliamentary debates.
1926 Mod. Lang. Notes 41 514 The contention is not being made that Storm was only a copyist, an abridger. External or technical changes were necessary, inevitable.
1961 H. M. Craig New Look at Shakespeare's Quartos ii. 63 The knife of the abridger was not idle in Q1. This passage is about ten prose lines shorter in Q1 than in Q2.
2007 New Yorker (Nexis) 22 Oct. 66 Novelists have always seen their work cut—by the interfering editor or the posthumous abridger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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